Lifestyle Medicine Health Coach at Kaiser Permanente

The Member Education Specialist (Lifestyle Medicine Health Coach) leads group and 1:1 classes, nearly or in individual, to assist contributors enhance well being and handle continual situations via life-style modifications. The function focuses on making a supportive, partaking atmosphere whereas guiding personalised care plans based mostly on the six pillars of life-style medication (vitamin, bodily exercise, sleep, stress administration, social connection, and threat avoidance). Success requires sturdy communication, group facilitation expertise, and a real dedication to serving to others enhance their well-being.

Job Summary:

Presents, and educates on well being education schemes and companies. This consists of coordinating and delivering trainings or different instructional encounters, aiding in sustaining and updating instructional and coaching assets, and serving to to gather and analyze information from courses and applications. Roles on this subfunction additionally assess and perceive the person wants of trainees, each from a classroom perspective and a broader inhabitants perspective.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Pursues efficient relationships with others by sharing assets, info, and data with coworkers and members. Listens to, addresses, and seeks efficiency suggestions. Pursues self-development; acknowledges strengths and weaknesses based mostly on profession objectives and takes acceptable improvement motion to leverage / enhance them. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and suggestions; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work. Assesses and responds to the wants of others to assist a enterprise final result.
• Completes work assignments by making use of up-to-date data in topic space to fulfill deadlines; follows procedures and insurance policies, and applies information and assets to assist initiatives or initiatives with restricted steering and/or sponsorship. Collaborates with others to unravel enterprise issues; escalates points or dangers as acceptable; communicates progress and data. Supports the completion of priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies and speaks up for methods to handle enchancment alternatives.
• Helps assesses and understands member wants by: serving to establish particular person wants, pursuits, talents, and quite a lot of studying types; adjusting educating type to fulfill the wants of contributors, to create an inclusive atmosphere which exceeds the wants of numerous people; and aiding different well being schooling employees to refer members to extra well being promotion assets/companies, when acceptable.
• Helps acquire, analyze, and report on information by: serving to to acquire and enter legitimate, dependable information corresponding to attendance, utilization, referrals, evaluations, and course project scores; serving to analyze information and discover areas for enchancment within the course; and serving to current information and findings from programs taught to maintain related events knowledgeable about course progress and initiatives, together with division leaders and different stakeholders.
• Helps educate and practice members by: offering evidence-based schooling info to members in single interactions (e.g., a category, a bunch or one-on-one encounter); guaranteeing members find out about a requested content material space by offering assets for continued schooling; making a welcoming ambiance that encourages studying when interacting with members; and independently offering info or assets that assist translate evidence-based ideas into easy and comprehensible info for members.
• Helps design coaching by: serving to design interactive actions, assignments, and testing acceptable for the objectives of every encounter and/or course studying outcomes; serving to develop high-quality, culturally responsive multi-media well being schooling supplies; and serving to establish content material modifications and collaborating to replace member-facing supplies.
• Maintains assets by: recommending updates to multimedia well being info assets; sustaining the database of instructional assets and supplies independently; and ordering new instructional assets and supplies independently.